Feast of Herod

bronze sculpture by Donatello

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In Donatello: Early career
…important of these was the Feast of Herod (1423–27), an intensely dramatic relief with an architectural background that first displayed Donatello’s command of scientific linear perspective, which Brunelleschi had rediscovered only a few years earlier. To the Siena font Donatello also contributed two statuettes of Virtues, austerely beautiful figures whose…
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